Participants: Charles Mills & James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00001A
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00:01 The following program presents principles
00:02 designed to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place 00:05 of personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and ideas expressed 00:09 are those of the speaker. 00:10 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:18 You want to be healthy? 00:19 The first step you may need to take 00:21 is to grab a flashlight 00:23 and look under your bed. Stay tuned. 00:28 I am Dr. James Marcum. Are you interested 00:32 in discovering the reason why you want solutions 00:35 to your healthcare problems? 00:37 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:39 Well, you're about to be given 00:41 the ultimate prescription. 00:45 There are a lot of health plans in this world 00:48 and most offer a degree of security, 00:50 but usually at a pretty hefty price. 00:52 And most health plans concentrate 00:54 on making sick people well. 00:57 But God adds something else in his approach. 01:00 He wants well people to stay that way forever. 01:04 How does he do that? 01:06 The answer is found in a rather unusual place. 01:10 Dr. Marcum, a lot of physicians 01:12 may not exactly jump on the idea that this book, 01:16 God's Word is part of a healing process. 01:20 Where did you find it? 01:22 Well, Charles, it's been a real journey for me. 01:25 And I can remember several years ago, 01:27 when I was a resident in internal medicine, 01:29 I was working on the hematology oncology service. 01:33 And there they took care of many people with cancer. 01:36 And I was taking care of this 30 01:38 something year old gentleman that had multiple myeloma. 01:41 And the treatment from that was to bombard him 01:44 with heavy chemotherapy, 01:45 which really knocked out his blood cells. 01:48 And then we give him antibiotics 01:49 to help him prevent infections. 01:51 And then we give him blood transfusions 01:53 and he got so that he couldn't eat. 01:54 So we fed him with hyperalimentation. 01:57 Then we gave him a bone marrow transplant 02:01 and he was in the unit month after month 02:03 and I can remember seeing his family, come in. 02:06 They were so hopeful. 02:07 They just wanted to see him, daddy get better. 02:11 And everyday he kept getting weaker and weaker, 02:14 Charles, and eventually this gentleman 02:17 despite all that modern medicine could do, 02:19 eventually he died. 02:21 And I can remember that empty feeling I had, 02:24 you know, you always have an empty feeling 02:26 when you lose a patient. 02:28 With this empty feeling as such, 02:30 I was just starting out my medical career. 02:32 I wanted to do something for him. 02:34 I wanted to help him and nothing, 02:36 nothing I did seemed to help. 02:38 And I didn't say the magical word 02:40 so I went down and talked to God 02:42 and said God, you know, 02:43 if this is what medicine is gonna be like 02:45 the rest of my life, I just don't want it. 02:47 I can't handle this empty feeling when someone dies. 02:51 And, you know, people die all the time, 02:54 but I thought like I should have done something more. 02:58 And during that time in my life I realized 03:00 that I hadn't been given 03:02 all the answers in medical school. 03:04 Sure I knew all the technical things to do. 03:07 I knew all the, you know, dancy treatments, 03:10 but I didn't really necessarily understand 03:12 the true depth of healing. 03:14 In that time period, I started going to the Bible 03:17 and finding answers for my own life. 03:20 And in those answers I found out 03:22 lo and behold that the Bible 03:23 had the answers for medical questions. 03:26 The Bible was really my textbook. 03:29 This was the place I should be looking first 03:30 and not medical, you know, 03:32 medical textbooks for the real answers 03:34 to these big complex problems. 03:36 You know, you were looking at the science 03:37 and a very common misconception 03:41 is that there is God 03:43 and then there is science. 03:44 And sometimes God and science are at odds with each other 03:48 when the truth of the matter is God created science. Yes. 03:52 We're missing that point. 03:54 And then through the years, 03:55 and this didn't happen right away, 03:56 through the years, I began going to discover 03:59 that the truths in the Bible 04:01 were backed up by science. Yes 04:03 And article after article started proving 04:06 these concepts that taking 04:09 a day off a week helped your chemistry, 04:11 help lower your adrenaline and cortisol, 04:13 lowered your cholesterol. 04:14 That when you drank more water, 04:16 ate the right way or having love in your life. 04:18 All these things were literally prescriptions 04:21 and treatments to change our chemistry 04:23 and then I realized that this prescription 04:25 called love how we were supposed 04:27 to be in a love relationship with our Creator 04:29 and have a great time with Him, 04:32 that was the part of the healing pyramid too. 04:35 And I realized that when we 04:36 didn't have that nothing else really mattered, Charles. 04:40 And I wished that I could go back now 04:43 and go to that gentleman's room 04:44 and say listen, you know, 04:46 I know that modern medicine isn't gonna fix everything, 04:49 but, you know, if you can just say a prayer 04:50 and start a relationship with the heavenly Father, 04:53 you know, he might not choose 04:55 to heal you now with modern medicine, 04:57 but He has a future for you, a healed future. Yes. 05:00 Where you don't have to have the illness anymore. 05:02 He loves you and he's gonna make things well with you 05:05 if you have this relationship. 05:06 So this has been a slow journey 05:08 that I don't see a lot of people saying that, 05:10 you know, the real prescriptions 05:12 come from the Bible. 05:13 This is the real-- we have this concept 05:15 that doctors can fix everything, you know, 05:18 but doctors are merely people that treat a lot of symptoms 05:22 that went to school for a long time. 05:24 Healing is much more involved. 05:25 Doctors can't be healers. 05:27 But we can be all be healers when we point people 05:30 and help nurture people into this great relationship 05:33 and help them understand, what our God is really like. 05:36 So the true medical textbook was the Bible. 05:39 That was the real source of truth 05:41 that I wanted to let people know about 05:43 and as I learn this, I learn more things everyday 05:46 about how the Bible helps change peoples chemistry 05:49 and it has to be involved in every treatment plan 05:52 to have this ultimate healing. 05:53 So who cares if I help 05:55 a heart attack he feels better 05:56 and lives 40 years 05:58 if he doesn't have ultimate healing. 06:00 Does it really matter? 06:02 Or what if a patient is lost, Charles, 06:04 but I know that he's gonna have a terminal healing 06:06 because he was plugged into that relationship. 06:08 That loved relationship that makes everything right. 06:11 So in my search for truth, 06:13 truth took me into different direction. 06:16 It wasn't in these journals. 06:17 It wasn't purely the journals. 06:19 It wasn't all this medical textbook. 06:21 It wasn't all the stuff I was reading on the internet. 06:24 The real source of truth in medicine 06:26 brought me back to the Bible. 06:29 Right. You know, 06:30 let's start looking for truth here, okay? 06:33 Dr. Marcum, you and I have talked about this 06:35 and we have discovered and you have discovered 06:38 that you go back to the very beginning of this book. 06:43 Back to the Book of Genesis and there you begin to find 06:48 a picture of what God had in line for our health. 06:52 He created a world. 06:53 He created an environment 06:56 and he created tools in that environment 06:58 and into this environment he placed Adam and Eve. 07:02 So let's find out what God did. 07:04 Let's take some shows here or some programs and find out 07:06 what God did that we today can take advantage of. 07:12 Now the very first thing God did and lot of people 07:16 can't quite get their mind around that 07:18 this is a healing teaching. 07:22 But the very first thing that God did when he began 07:25 the creation of this world, 07:27 He came down here and He found a void. 07:31 He came down here and he found darkness. 07:34 A swirling mass of water 07:38 and nothing a whole lot more. 07:40 The Bible describes it as a void. 07:44 Ever felt like you're in a void? 07:47 Ever felt your life is a void? 07:50 There's nothing going on that makes sense. 07:52 There's nothing of beauty here. 07:57 The very first thing God did, 07:58 He said, let there be light. 08:02 Now we know that the sun came a few days later. 08:05 Dr. Marcum, when he said let there be a light, 08:09 what do you think he was talking about? 08:11 What was He bringing to this void 08:13 that is represented by light? 08:15 Well, you know, you're probably gonna hear 08:17 many theologians say many different things on this. 08:21 You know, at the opening, you had your light. Yes. 08:24 You know, what were you doing with your light? 08:25 You know, but I would like to think that light is truth. 08:31 You know, God wants to bring truth into this world. 08:34 Let there be truth. Let there be truth--Wow. 08:37 That the universal principles that govern 08:40 not only the earth we live in 08:42 but govern the entire universe. 08:44 For instance, Sir Isaac Newton on earth 08:47 discovered the principle of gravity 08:50 and he says if you jump off a building, Charles, 08:52 you're gonna break. Yes. 08:54 Even if you don't believe that truth, it's still true. 08:57 Well, these universal truths 08:59 that we're gonna discover as we go on, 09:02 these medical truths exist 09:04 whether we believe them or not. Yes. 09:06 So at the very outset I think that God says, 09:09 you know, this is truth. 09:10 You know, this is truth I wanna give you. 09:13 You know, this is what I want to show you, 09:14 how my universe was designed. 09:17 How I was designed to love you. 09:18 This truth that's out there 09:20 and I want to teach you this 09:21 as we move forward in this relationship. 09:24 I'm gonna teach you my ways. 09:25 I wanna teach you the best ways 09:27 because I love you so much. 09:28 Let's talk about science just for a little bit. 09:30 I've often wrestled with the idea 09:32 of what this void was and how light 09:38 could not even exist in this void. 09:41 I asked a scientist that very question 09:42 and he told me about something 09:43 in space called black holes. 09:46 Have you heard of those black holes? 09:47 I have heard of those. A black hole is an area 09:49 of space that is so dense 09:52 and so confused and so powerful 09:58 that not even light can exist in it. 10:01 And again I have to draw 10:02 a parallel here to a lot of people. 10:05 My life is so dense. My life is so confused. 10:08 My life is so painful. 10:10 My world is so full of anger, and guilt, 10:15 and frustration that light can't exist here. 10:20 And the first thing God does, 10:21 in here it says, let there be light. 10:23 And I think that's what He did with this world. 10:25 He took that black hole, which was this world, 10:30 and He introduced something there 10:31 that was never there before 10:32 and it made all the difference. 10:33 He introduced light into this. 10:37 Dr. Marcum, when a patient or a client comes 10:40 and sits in the chair in your office, 10:43 what are some of the dark holes 10:47 that you're finding in peoples lives? 10:49 What are some of those barriers 10:52 to the truth getting through 10:54 that they have or society has or the media 10:57 has brought up that is keeping them 11:00 from understanding the light of truth. 11:02 Well, you know, if I was an evil one 11:04 wanting to destroy the world, 11:06 wanting to destroy health, I would do justice. 11:09 I would get people believing a bunch of lies 11:11 and deceptions that had no truth behind it. 11:14 And I see this going on when I talk to my patients 11:17 they come in and they sit on the chair 11:19 and we examine them and talk to them. 11:21 And you know what, they'll tell me, 11:23 well, I read this on the internet 11:25 or I saw this on television. 11:26 This seems to be the best thing that there is. 11:29 And that's not what the truth is. 11:32 And they say, well, my aunt so and so told me this. 11:37 Or you know, I read about this 11:39 but the real barrier is the source of truth. 11:42 Where do we go to find the source of truth 11:45 and I try to say, listen, this is great 11:47 but let's really think about the source of truth. 11:49 Let's think about how we were designed 11:51 in the very beginning. 11:53 The source, the book as the Bible teaches us 11:55 as we should live, as our temples should live. 11:58 And I also say as we violate these truths, 12:01 universal truths, stress is put on our body. 12:04 Our chemistry is changed. 12:06 This chemistry done day in day out, 12:08 year in year out sooner or later 12:10 causes these inflammatory proteins, 12:12 this adrenaline, this cortisol. 12:14 We cross that limit of being able to cope. Yes. 12:17 And sooner or later we can't sleep well, 12:19 we can't think well. Our blood pressure goes up. 12:21 We have heart attacks. We have infections. 12:23 We have all these chronic illnesses. 12:25 We have genetic stress that's been passed on 12:27 from generations to generations 12:29 and yet we think we're programmed 12:33 that we have to live this way. 12:35 But it's not true. 12:37 God does not want us to live this way. 12:39 He wants us to live way back 12:40 like it was in Genesis. Yes. 12:42 So I first let people know that there's truth 12:44 and there's a way to find it. 12:46 You know, you can't depend on others to have the truth. 12:48 This truth starts in that relationship, 12:51 which you have with the heavenly Father. 12:53 And in my life, you know, I found that truth 12:56 when I asked the Holy Spirit to come in. 12:57 You know, I can't do anything right, Charles, 13:00 but when I ask God to come in 13:01 and make some changes and give me some power, 13:04 all the sudden, he teaches me truth 13:06 and let's me know what's true no matter what. 13:08 Well, that is amazing because we are now opening a door 13:12 that a lot of people have never considered before 13:14 and that door is a door to truth. 13:17 And it's really simple. God created us. 13:21 God put together a world and an environment for us. 13:25 God put together a relationship 13:27 for us to enjoy. 13:29 And God says these are the laws 13:33 that you live by. 13:34 These are the laws that bring healing. 13:37 This is what you need to know to be healthy. 13:41 We're gonna examine those laws week after week. 13:43 And as soon as we comeback, we're gonna talk 13:45 about some questions that have been sent into 13:46 the heartwiseministries.org website 13:49 that these laws can apply to, so stay tuned. |
Revised 2014-12-17